Be amazed: this is not a post about diabetes!
I have not played Sims 2 in some time now. Instead, this weekend I pulled out Sim City again. Started playing Sim City 4 for a bit, but then got pissed because it kept crashing my computer. Sim City 4 is such a cool game, but it runs like complete and utter crap. Maybe part of it is just because it’s on Vista. Regardless, if I don’t save every five minutes, I eventually find myself throwing it across the room and screaming at my monitor.
So after about 3 times of that, I finally pulled out Sim City Societies. I bought this quite a while ago for $10 off Amazon. Reviews for this game were pretty bad, and that fact that it was only $10 a few months after being released is never a good sign. When I first put the game in after buying it all that time ago, I couldn’t get into it. Mostly, I was just in a Sims phase and didn’t feel like it at the time. But also for some bloody reason they decided to make the navigation tools fucked up beyond belief in Societies. I do not understand why they would stray so far from previous Sim Cities in this regard. It’s just awkward. I have to use the arrow keys to pan, which drives me nuts because I’m used to right clicking with the mouse and dragging. And the zoom is ridiculous. You can’t zoom out very far at all. And unless you’re turned a certain way on the map, the edges of your city get hidden. Whoever designed this aspect of the game should be fired.
Anyway, despite all that, I got over it a little bit this weekend and actually tried to play past the tutorial. And it’s actually quite fun! Ridiculously different than any previous version of Sim City, but I knew that going in. I really miss zones. Placing every single house gets a little bit old. But I like placing individual work places and venues. (The combination of this is of course City Life, haha!) The graphics are cute, and the variety of the buildings is entertaining. So far I’m just loving creating areas that produce lots of spirituality. I made a totally cool Amish-like area in my city yesterday. LOL.
If I wasn’t at work procrastinating, I would show a picture. Maybe I’ll add it later.
The other thing I’ve been eating up all my free time with is reading Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark Hunter novels. Oh these are so much fun! Haha. They’re a little silly, and I say that mostly because the endings are all over-the-top happily-ever-after for the main characters involved. And they’re all very similar in that regard. But man these things are entertaining to read! I absolutely love the world she’s set up. Vampires and Greek mythology? HOW FUN! I just finished reading Seize the Night. And I’m already super stoked to read Acheron’s book, but I’ve got a few more before that one. So yeah, that’s my guilty pleasure as of late. If I could spend the entire day just reading these books, I’d be happy.
In other news, I still hate work. Maybe it’s the time of year and the fact that I’m preoccupied with other stuff. Maybe I just need a serious career change. Which is scary, because I’ve never had thoughts like that before. I’m just sick to death of what I’m doing right now. It doesn’t interest me anymore. It might also be just that I haven’t had any new and interesting projects fall into my lap in several months. Whatever it is, I’m struggling to make it through the eight hours every day big time. Last week, I didn’t show up until 10am a couple times. I should be grateful I can get away with bullshit like that. Sigh.
Countdown to a 2-week Christmas break starts now. It won’t be long enough, it never is, but it will be something.